Narrow-gutted

Quick meaning: Narrow-gutted is an adjective meaning (boat-building) Narrow in the beam; Not as wide as is conventional for a vessel of comparable length.

Meaning

(boat-building) Narrow in the beam; Not as wide as is conventional for a vessel of comparable length.

More Meanings

1. Having a thin abdomen, especially when sickly or hungry.
2. Thin; narrow.
3. Cheap and/or minimal.
4. Overly frugal; stingy.
5. Small-minded; conventional and unadventurous;

Example Sentences

An awkward and angular fellow, narrow-gutted, with wiry beard and bony face.

In this case Rolf Eliasson has opted for length, although an 8'5" beam isn't excessively narrow-gutted on a 25'7” LWL.

A whippet's bow to his back in the tight hunch where he sat, narrow-gutted from recent deprivations, a long Riverina face.

It looked like a typical gyppo logging camp boat, a sad-looking thirty-two-foot hulk on its last stop before the boneyard. It was a long, narrow-gutted, low-slung thing.

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